Re: Intelligence Evaluation and the Yalu

["Les Hanson" <hanson@totalnetnh.net>]

MacArthurs farewell speach to Congress
           A reading of the day from a day in the past,and if read,Why are
we still in Korea ?

 http://www.unclesam.net/warriors/farewell.htm

Les
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Evanhoe" <evanhoe@arbuckleonline.com>
To: <KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu>
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 12:06 PM
Subject: Re: Intelligence Evaluation and the Yalu


>
> >Marc,
> >
> > >>Blair certainly dissents from your analysis.  Prior to CHROMITE, FEC
had
> >been ordered to base operational and strategic planning on intelligence
> >analyses prepared in Washington, and this was the procedure followed for
> >the remainder of the conflict. <<
>
> I disagree with Blair on many points. <LOL>
>
> > >>In other words, intelligence was gathered by units in Korea and was
> > sent to Washington with or without a preliminary field analysis.  But,
in
> > the end, it was Washington's evaluation which was the "official" one and
> > was the only one allowed to be used by FEC in its own planning.<<
>
> That may be the "official" line but in reality, MacArthur generally made
> his operational decisions on what his staff told him was happening, not on
> what Washington told him was happening.
>
> > >>Yes, Willoughby did send a field analysis that the CHICOM's captured
were
> >advisors or the like, but, under the procedures in use at the time, this
> >only counted as a helpful suggestion.  The official take was that made in
> >Washington and was based not just on tactical intelligence but also on a
> >much broader scope of information.  Thus, the CIA, State, and DoD
received
> >FEC's report and discounted it in its entirety -- at one point, the CIA
> >denied that ANY CHICOM's had been encountered and it was only an offer by
> >Willoughby to send some of the captured Chinese to Washington which
forced
> >the point.<<
>
> As always, egos and agendas at play. <G>
>
> Ed
> Ed Evanhoe, PO Box 916, Antlers, OK, 74523-0916
> Author: DARKMOON: Eighth Army Special Operations in the Korean War
> Co-author: KOREAN WAR ORDER OF BATTLE 1950-1953 (Dec, 2002)
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>